The Whisper Man review – Robert De Niro sleepwalks through silly Netflix potboiler
A father and son must team up to find a serial killer in a cheaply made and increasingly uninteresting thriller
September 2025
Hundreds of Hollywood stars sign open letter condemning Kimmel suspension
Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks and Robert De Niro among signatories of letter decrying Disney’s move after Jimmy Kimmel made remarks on Kirk’s death
June 2025
My feelgood movie
‘Always something I can watch’: why Spotlight is my feelgood movie
The latest in our series of writers drawing attention to their mood-lifting favourites is a robustly made Oscar winner from 2015
February 2025
My feelgood movie
‘Manic screwball energy’: why The Paper is my feelgood movie
The Paper, Ron Howard’s underappreciated 1994 comedy drama, is latest in our series in which writers highlight their favourite comfort films
October 2024
Saturday Night Live recap
Saturday Night Live: Michael Keaton hosts and Alec Baldwin cameos in middling episode
Despite the season starting stronger than usual, this week saw a drop-off in quality despite a few decent moments, including a parody of Harris’s Fox News interview
September 2024
Wendy Ide's film of the week
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice review – Tim Burton has fun with pleasingly idiosyncratic sequel
The director’s long-imagined follow-up to his 1988 cult movie Beetlejuice revels in some gleefully silly moments while narrowly avoiding that dated feeling
August 2024
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice review – Tim Burton sequel takes retro joyride through old haunts
Burton’s game attempt to bring the 1980s horror-comedy back from the spirit world is full of gaudy set-pieces but fails to add much to the original
July 2024
Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice to open Venice film festival
The much-anticipated sequel to the director’s 1988 hit Beetlejuice will get its world premiere at the festival in August
June 2023
The Flash review – nicely irreverent superhero film
Ezra Miller plays the turbo-charged time traveller in a fun DC film featuring an underused Supergirl and the return of Michael Keaton’s Batman
The Flash review – Ezra Miller’s doppelganger-superhero is a gurning, smirking mess
Some entertaining moments can’t hide the fact that this latest product of the DC Comics universe doesn’t exactly fly past
Week in geek
Robert Downey Jr as Doctor Doom? Does the MCU multiverse mean anything can happen?
The Iron Man star nearly played the role 20 years ago in Fantastic Four. Will the movie’s reboot see the latest ‘almost was’ become an ‘is’, following Nicolas Cage’s Superman?
June 2022
Batman Returns at 30: still as weird as big-budget blockbusters get
Tim Burton’s kinetic and kinky sequel pushed the boundaries for the summer movie template helped by a standout movie star turn from Michelle Pfeiffer
April 2022
Coming of aged: why is Hollywood bringing back veteran stars?
From Tom Cruise to Michael Keaton, A-listers can’t resist the urge to resurrect the roles that made them. But will nostalgia be enough to woo people back to cinemas?
March 2022
Kapow! Our writers pick their favorite Batman movie
To celebrate the release of The Batman, Guardian writers have written about their all-time favorite Caped Crusader films from Adam West to Ben Affleck
February 2022
Screen Actors Guild awards 2022: Squid Game, Will Smith and Coda win big
Netflix phenomenon and Apple’s deaf family drama make history at this year’s SAG awards ceremony
December 2021
Top US films 2021
The 50 best films of 2021 in the US: the full list
Our countdown of the best films released in the US during 2021 reaches No 1 with Jane Campion’s menacing western about two warring brothers
October 2021
‘A story people need to know’: behind a shocking TV series about the opioid crisis
In the revealing new drama Dopesick, starring Michael Keaton, the horrifying story of the painkillers and the company that created them is brought to a wide audience
September 2021
9/11: 20 years later
Why Netflix drama Worth is the best 9/11 movie to date
The Kindergarten Teacher director Sara Colangelo’s sensitive and poignant film about the victim compensation fund is surprisingly necessary tribute
August 2021
Worth review – a moral maze for 9/11 victims’ lawyer
Week in geek
Curse of the Batsuit: why Val Kilmer found it hard to measure up
